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On 06/28/2012 09:30 PM, Andrew Jones wrote:
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
>> In summary, current PV has huge benefit on non-PLE machine.
>>
>> On PLE machine, the results become very sensitive to load, type of
>> workload and SPIN_THRESHOLD. Also PLE interference has significant
>> effect on them. But still it has slight edge over non PV.
>>
>
> Hi Raghu,
>
> sorry for my slow response. I'm on vacation right now (until the
> 9th of July) and I have limited access to mail.

Ok. Happy Vacation :)

Also, thanks for
> continuing the benchmarking. Question, when you compare PLE vs.
> non-PLE, are you using different machines (one with and one
> without), or are you disabling its use by loading the kvm module
> with the ple_gap=0 modparam as I did?

Yes, I am doing the same when I say with PLE disabled and comparing the
benchmarks (i.e loading kvm module with ple_gap=0).

But older non-PLE results were on a different machine altogether. (I
had limited access to PLE machine).